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A fight over the sale of Dexus' shares in Melbourne Airport operator APAC “may well” go to the High Court, a judge said Friday, as the infrastructure asset manager tells the court the sale may be in the “many billions of dollars".

A judge has dismissed a class action on behalf of irrigators in NSW and Victoria, alleging negligent management of water flowing through the Murray Darling system

A judge has dismissed a portion of an applicant's claims in FWO and class action cases against Coles and Woolworths, while final declarations against the supermarket giants remain to be made, almost one year after the companies were found liable for $780 million in back pay.

Dexus is challenging the costs claimed by its opponents in a case over the sale of shares in Melbourne Airport operator APAC, calling out billed items that include after hours Uber Eats charges. 

A KPMG partner who resigned in the wake of the firm's leaks scandal in May has defended his auditing of now defunct steelmaker Arrium, telling a court that inconsistencies were resolved through talks with management.

The former chairman of collapsed Arrium has denied that his purchase of 750,000 shares was aimed at showing confidence in the company, attributing his purchase to a personal policy. 

McDonald’s franchisees named in an underpayments class action over alleged unpaid pre and post-shift work by managers need to decide by the end of the year whether they wish to be bound by agreed facts for the initial trial, a judge has said.

A director of defunct Arrium has told a court he didn't believe it was necessary to revisit the steelmaker's iron ore price assumption before approving the company's 2014 accounts, even after the price fell significantly.

A judge has found that new planning rules that make solar farm development applications more onerous in Queensland applied retrospectively to X-Elio’s proposed solar project in the Western Downs region. 

The corporate cop is challenging a decision that tossed its breach of duty claims against three Regional Express board members over the company's continuous disclosure failures.